16 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



It is not my purpose to even briefly sketch 

 here the progressive steps by which the work 

 begun by Bakewell grew into the fabric which 

 we possess. Let it suffice to say that what he 

 began others both scientists and breeders 

 pushed on with well-directed labors, each add- 

 ing his mite to the general sum of knowledge. 

 My purpose is rather to point out that, while 

 prior to the appearance of Bakewell tnere was 

 little known in regard to cattle-breeding and 

 little attention given to it, since his time it 

 has risen so rapidly that it is perhaps not 

 claiming too much to assert that there are both 

 a science and an art of breeding. 



Science is primarily knowledge, and second- 

 arily it is knowledge systematized and arranged. 

 For more than a hundred years acute observers 

 have been gathering facts and studying the 

 phenomena of animal reproduction. During 

 this time an immense number of facts have 

 been collected, collated and arranged with refer- 

 ence to the elucidation of the many problems 

 affecting the transmission of life. Out of these 

 investigations have grown many special studies 

 of particular departments of the great general 

 subject. Studies of the laws of heredity, of 

 natural selection, and many other specific prob- 

 lems have won years of devoted labor from 

 many active scholars. What the scientist has 

 approached from the side of theory the practi- 



